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When I first started collecting t-shirts, I was young trying to understand life as a sophomore in high school. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be involved with or writing for a website like Hide Your Arms. Andy is a true class act and I am honored to be on the roster of such talented writers. There is nothing more exciting than helping indie brands get the spotlight they deserve. As a token of gratitude, I have installed a permanent discount code for Hide Your Arms readers -HYA gets you 25% off any collaboration in the Oven Fresh Dreams store. For those of you who do not know, I am a barista and baker by trade – Oven Fresh Dreams is my online collective that intertwines my lifestyle with the stories of all the creative people I encounter.

“When I started baking (before I truly knew what I was doing), I was influenced by many creative types. This list includes Johnny “Cupcakes” Earle, Benny Gold, Mike Giant, Freegums, and a handful of other wonderful people. The artistic vision behind these artists and business owners inspire me to take O.F.D to unreachable heights. Keeping that in mind, I want to showcase the talents of the people I encounter in my journey by teaming up and releasing a series of limited collaborations. Now known as The Collaborate & Dream Series – the series focuses on printable mediums; t-shirts, posters, prints, and zines with the hopes of elevating the exposure of the artists I work with. There is nothing more important to me than helping artists tell their stories and share their gift with the world.”

Thank you all for being amazing. I hope to review more brands for Hide Your Arms for months to come and can not wait for you to read!

‘Retro Gals: Mods and Rockers’ is a series of pinup art inspired screen printed posters and t-shirts by artists Anne Benjamin, Babs Tarr, Daniel Krall, and Alex Pearson. Honestly, I’ve never heard of any of those people, but that’s the great thing about running this blog, awesome artists get in touch to let me know what they’re doing and I get to find out about cool stuff and share it with you guys.

Prints are $25 each (or get the whole set of 4 for $80), and tees are $22 at Family Tree Design.

Three new shirts, three new prints, and a brand new tote bag make for 7 new items in the Ugmonk store. And you can save 20% off all of them until June 3rd with discount code “Spring20″. My favorite is definitely the Never Settle t-shirt.

“It’s easy to be average, but only the standouts survive. So no matter what you’re working on, put in the extra effort; take time to refine; Never Settle.”

This isn’t actually a submission, but Matt’s e-mail to me about the release covers all the bases and I think I’m getting a migraine so I think it’s okay to let him do all the work.

Happy Halloween! Just a quick note to let you know that this morning I announced the Fifth Anniversary release, which consists of a new shirt, five prints, a one-of-a-kind Punkin Mini Munny, and some great new accessories as well. I’ve got images of the shirts and prints attached, and everything is now available at www.seventhink.com.

Fifth Anniversary 9×12 Screen Printed Poster Set of Four Prints – $25
Limited to 100, numbered and signed by Matthew Johnson (myself, the artist). Printed with dark gray and metallic gold inks on Black paper by French.

Coupon code: “FiveYears” is good for 20% off through Sunday. Does not work on the HC3 Box Set or the Mini Munny.

Really great to see Matt coming along with his brand, he’s got a really coherent design style and sticks to what he likes rather than blindly following trends, which I respect a lot, here’s to the next 5 years!

One Good Atom got in touch with me recently to say hello and let me know about their new charity t-shirt sites. One Good Atom aims to occasionally produce limited edition runs of t-shirts and art prints from guest artists, and then give all of the profits to a charity of the artist’s choice. All sounds good to me, the world gets some good tees, and charities get money to continue doing their work, I’m pretty sure everyone wins.

This week they have “It’s Own Place” by Alan Kerr (who is actually the site’s founder too) up for pre-order, available in cuts suitable for men and women (£13) or as an art print (£8) with the goods being shipped out on or around November 5th. Alan has chosen the UK depression charity Mind to receive the profits from his artwork. It’s going to be cool to see who else they get, it would be great to see this site really take off.

On the night before Halloween, Washer Head gathered his clothes and went into a laundromat.

What came out was more horrifying than burning your mouth on hot nachos and more terrifying than finding your clothes being shrunk two sizes in the dryer.

No one knew exactly what it was but they knew that It Came From The Laundromat.

This is a Limited Edition Halloween print for Hang Dry Clothing! Each print comes with a classic pair of 3D Glasses! There will only be 50 printed so pre-order yours now!

Andy: It’s nice that this is just $10, because I don’t really understand why someone would buy this, but then again I don’t really have a close association with the brand, if you’re a big fan then I’m sure it would be a lot more attractive, and I’m sure the actual print will look better than a mockup.

In case the new posters in the HYA store don’t float your boat (what the devil is wrong with you? They’re gorgeous!) Inkefx recently released three new prints based on the designs from currents shirts in their range. Here’s the important details:

These prints are just $12 each, $12 for a screenprinted poster this lovely is just ridiculous, pick one up before Jake realises he could charge double and people would still be happy. As if they weren’t cheap enough, using the coupon codeHIDEYOURARMS will give you 15% off at checkout.

I’ve taken a bit of a departure from the norm and added something to the HYA store which isn’t based on the Hide Your Arms logo. I have a good friend called Steven Gregg who is a wonderful illustrator and I felt the world needed to see more of his work and have a chance to hang it on their walls. What you can see above are the first two prints in what I hope will become a series of prints by Steve to be sold in the HYA store, because the man has talent and there are a lot more designs where these came from.

“Reading” and “Skull” are both A3 in size and available for the ridiculously reasonable price of £9.99 each, or you can pick them both up in a two-pack for £14.99.

Random Objects released some new tees and a print that all live up to the expectations of the brand.

Random Objects produces designs that play on the relationship between literal and visual language. Generally, when t-shirt brands try to tackle typographic designs, they can turn out kitschy or juvenile. However, Random Objects does it on an elevated level, keeping designs classic and minimal and exploring old proverbs. The typefaces are bold, mostly sans serif, or cleanly handwritten without the overexposed Contino effect.

These new products are now available in the Random Objects online shop. For a limited time, you can also use the discount code – HOTSALE – for 20% off your entire order. Good deal for some great product!

When Ugmonk released the simple-yet-brilliant ‘Mountains’ design on a t-shirt last year it went on to become one of their fastest selling items ever, and considering just about everyone loves Ugmonk that probably means something. So it’s no surprise that Jeff has decided to expand the range to include a hoodie, a print, and also to print the t-shirt version on a charcoal grey shirt instead of the previous black. They;re all available in the shop now and you can get 10% off with your order with the coupon codeMOUNTAINS.

Rick over at OMUNKY has put together a really nice Spring release featuring three shirts I’d wear and also a few prints to help round out his selection of products. The three new shirts are $18 a pop, which is a little bit less than usual, and that’s because for the first time Rick isn’t printing shirts on 100% organic cotton t-shirts and is instead trying out some ‘regular’ American Apparel blanks. It’s still a high quality blank and I can see why he would want to give customers a bit more choice when it comes to pricing. This doesn’t mean that the organic tees are gone for good, there are still organic tees in the back catalogue and Rick will be printing up organic shirts in the future, it just so happens that these designs aren’t organic. As always 5% of profits are going to WildAid.

I’ve taken a look at their store and there are some big bargains to be had, with shirts being priced between $7.20 (ridiculous!) and $14.99 (less ridiculous, still pretty good!), definitely worth a look.

There seem to be quite a few brands diversifying their portfolios at the moment and releasing prints, and I’m all for it, I often see t-shirts that are ‘art on a t-shirt’ rather that ‘t-shirt art’ so it’s hardly a surprise that designers are turning their popular t-shirts into other items. Hell, I even had posters printed upp and they’re in the HYA store, though I must admit they aren’t selling particularly well (don’t you love me!?).

Colus have released their most popular tee in the form of a limited edition (50 pieces total) 18×24 inch screenprinted print of ‘Wise Owl’, and I think it looks super, I can imagine it framed on my wall and at fifteen bucks it’s pretty reasonable too.

Antisparkle are attempting to raise $1000 for the American Cancer Society through the sale of the print that you can see above. Available for $12, 100% of the net proceeds will be donated to the charity. It’s a lofty goal to donate that much, but I wish them luck.